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Recovery from injury is a team effort

Everyone plays a role

WORKING TO WELL STARTS WITH WORKING TOGETHER

People are our province’s greatest asset. With the support of other team members, you can actively participate in your recovery plan, minimizing the impact of a workplace injury on yourself, your family and your community.

Employer

Your employer plays the most influential role on your return to work team. They demonstrate workplace safety leadership by creating an environment that supports you recovering from your injury and that includes connecting with you and the entire team.

WCB Staff

WCB case coordinators, occupational therapists and the return to work coordinator work together to help coordinate your recovery, at a time that can be challenging for both you and your employer. They help navigate a path so routines can get back to normal, as soon as safely possible.

Health Care Provider

Health care providers set the wheels in motion for your injury treatment and recovery plan. They work closely with you, your employer, and the WCB to create and implement a plan that allows for your safe and timely return to the job.

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THE MOST IMPORTANT TEAM MEMBER IS YOU.

Understand your role in your return-to-work plan.

What you can do:

  • Let your employer know immediately if you are injured on the job
  • Actively participate in any health care treatment as part of your recovery plan
  • Provide your WCB PEI case coordinator with any updates or barriers to your recovery plan
  • Explore modified duties with your employer
  • Stay in touch with your co-workers

Benefits of actively participating in your recovery plan:

  • Helps you stay active and provides a sense of purpose
  • Minimizes the impact on you and your family
  • Maintains your sense of confidence and value by shifting your focus from what you “can’t do” to what you safely “can do”
  • Allows you to stay in contact with co-workers and your workplace

MODIFIED DUTIES CAN HELP IN AN EARLY AND SAFE RECOVERY

WHAT ARE MODIFIED DUTIES?

Modified duties are any temporary changes to your job that align with your functional abilities after injury. In other words, duties that match what you are able to do.

When an injury occurs, your goal, and the goal of your employer, is to get back to the way things were before the injury. Modified duties keep you connected to work during recovery when it's more important than ever for your physical and mental well-being.

WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT?

Modified duties are designed to be meaningful and productive, to help you recover and contribute to valuable work. They become an integral part of your treatment plan.

With regular monitoring, modified duties are meant to be flexible and may be increased as your abilities improve through your recovery.

More importantly, modified duties keep you connected to work during recovery when it’s more important than ever for your physical and mental well-being.

How are they determined?

When you experience a workplace injury, your health care provider may perform a functional abilities assessment to determine what you can do. Your health care provider will consult closely with you and your WCB case coordinator to match your abilities to tasks and job functions in your workplace that are meaningful, productive and safe to perform.

What is the goal?

Modified duties play a very important role in your recovery. They serve as a temporary bridge until you can safely return to your regular duties.

A date to return to regular duties is determined when your injury is assessed, and that is the goal you, your employer, your health care providers, and your WCB case worker will work toward, together.

It's important to stay connected

  • WCB Claim Process: Get Started Now.

  • Say "Yes" to coffee with co-workers

  • Check in with your boss

  • Keep doctor, chiropractor and physiotherapist appointments